Organisation Details

Organisation Contacts

Name of Organisation:

African Women's Development Fund

Address:

PMB CT 89, Cantonments, Accra Ghana

Contact Details:

Telepnone: +233 28 9669666

Organisation Goals

VISION & MISSION STATEMENT

The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) is a grant-making foundation, which aims to support the work of the African Women’s movement. The vision of AWDF is for African women to live with integrity and in peace in a world where there is social justice, equality and respect for women’s human rights. To this end, our mission is to mobilise financial, human and material resources to support initiatives for transformation led by African women and the African women’s movement.

OUR THEORY OF CHANGE

If women and women’s organisations are empowered with skills, information, sustainable livelihoods, opportunities to fulfill their potential, plus the capacity and space to make transformatory choices, then we will have vibrant, healthy and inclusive communities.

Our fundraising, grant-making and communications strategies are based on the following values and principles:

We believe in the personhood of African women, and that their rights are an inalienable, indivisible and integral part of universal human rights

We believe in acknowledging, valuing and rewarding women’s paid and unpaid labour in the private and public

We believe in solidarity, partnerships, networking

We believe in investing in young women’s leadership, and promoting an inter-generational transfer of skills and knowledge.

We believe in nurturing feminist principles and promoting feminist leadership

We believe in women’s bodily integrity

We believe in valuing women’s diversity

We believe in creating and sustaining spaces where women can thrive and achieve their full potential, and where their voices can be amplified.

We listen to women, and we respect their knowledge, perspectives and experiences

We believe in the growth and long-term sustainability of organisations led and managed by women in a democratic, transparent and progressive manner.

We believe that the African women’s movement is part of a broader movement within and outside Africa, aimed at creating an enabling environment for good governance, social justice, and equality, and which tries to counter the negative consequences of globalisation.

We believe that our work is linked to that of a Global Women’s Movement which has worked hard for gains for women, and which is sustained by the voices, hands and work of women from all over the world

SUMMARY OF STRATEGIC GOALS

Strategic Goal 1: To support African women’s organisations and the African Women’s Movement in their work to promote, protect and realise women’s human rights, through grant-making, capacity building, advocacy and movement building